Best Brewrey Tours

Any where the tour guide waits for you to refill

 

Oskar Blues - tour guide handed me a Dale's straight off the canning line

 

I really liked Harpoon in Boston. First thing they do is hand you a taster glass with beer, then you sample along the way. Tried the IPA direct from the fermenter (and it was better than the final product IMO). After the tour they give you 30 minutes all you can drink at the bar. Plus one of the guy brought out various barrel aged brews from the back because he knew I was a beer geek.

 

I've been on about 15. The best hands down is Sierra Nevada. It's not just the best brewery tour but the factory tour of any kind i've taken.

 

Troegs puts on a pretty good tour w/ malted barley samples, unfinished beer, and samples of 3 other finished beers too. Pint glass swag as well.

 

Lakefront is a good one. You can drink during the tour with a refill at halfway by using tokens that come with the price of admission, and then at the end everyone sings the song from the Laverne and Shirley TV show.

New Glarus is a self-guided tour, and it is amazing just from the first-class, polished set-up of the entire brewery that you get to see. Drinking is also permissible if purchased at the tasting room along with the tour ticket.

 

Lakefront in Milwaukee. They let the tour guides drink all day, let you stop to fill up once or twice along the 30 min tour, crown a bung queen, and you finish by singing the Laverne and Shirley theme song. Always a good time.

 

Surly. You don't have to wait until after the tour for the beer, you start your tasting straight away.

 

Brewery Ommegang was quite nice parked out in the middle of the rolling hills of Cooperstown
Harpoon when I went consisted of sitting at the bar talking about the beers and sampling them with the swag for sale right behind you.
Troegs was good also I went to the old location and it was many ago now.

 

lagunitas was fantastic (very funny), the lost abbey was exactly what i was hoping for (completely chill bar, didn't get an actual tour though).

stone was awful. not the tour itself but the system to hand out tickets is terrible. i had a bad experience at the bistro also, broke my heart i love me some stone beers.

 

The Anheuser Busch tour in St. Louis was really interesting. Budweiser strait from the holding tanks actually tasted really good.

 

I heard this on more than one occasion, actually.

I really like Yard's in Philly. Tom really knows his history and will sit down for a pint afterwards.

 

I've been on a handful of brewery tours by far the best for me was firestone in paso robles, followed by a close second(don't laugh it's a macro brew) Pacifico in Mazatlan, Mexico!!! Just remember it's in Mexico it"s was a great trip they treat you great on these tours!!

 

Sam Adams. JK. What a joke of a brewery tour that is.

I toured the Rolling Rock brewery after then had moved out. At the time Sam Adams was contracting brewing out of it, they were brewing and bottling all the Winter Lager there that year. Was really cool cause it wasnt a public tour, in fact tours weren't even open to the public I dont think. I was doing an honors chem reseaarch project on hops and went with a couple of my professors/research advisors who knew the right people. Got to go into the depths of the brewery, much better than the standard generic tour.

 

Cantillon

Or hanging out/touring De Struise with Urbain and Carlo

 

Came here to say this. My buddy and I toured the place right on the heels of a Rotary Club group. They exited pretty quickly, leaving behind half-empty trays of baguette sandwiches and 2 half-full wooden kegs, one of unblended lambic and one of faro. The brewmaster told us to help ourselves, so we stood there eating, draining the kegs, and chatting; turns out his favorite German beer is Schlenkerla Maerzen...wise man, and extremely nice, too!

 

Deschutes is pretty fun, free tasting, and at the very end they have this art gallery type of thing with individual paintings of all the jubelale artwork all the way back to the beginning.

 

Second this ^. Two of the best beer experiences I have ever had.

 

Yuengling is a fun tour (The one in Pottsville, PA). Its very old and there is tons of history.